|1366x768 natively in 15,6 inches screen; speed very good ( Gimp/Blender/Movie Rendering/Videos ), compositing with Compiz under Gnome2/KDE4 and all sort of effects works in all Linux versions - only Ubuntu's new Unity is problematic , sluggish and needs some advanced tweaks within compizconfig-settings-manager like disable vsync and reduce mouse polling time ( beta testing 12.04 shows lot of progress .. to be seen when final is out ) .

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Card has 1024MB own RAM, machine has 4096MB - tested kernels : 2.6.39 through 3.2.x x86PAE as well as x64, all fine.

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Revision as of 16:44, 27 March 2012

Laptops

Model

Graphics

Driver Version

Status

Distributions

Notes

Satellite L645D-S4058

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series

Catalyst 11.2

Works

Ubuntu 10.10

Performance is not as good as experienced in windows, but not too bad either.

1366x768 natively in 15,6 inches screen; speed very good ( Gimp/Blender/Movie Rendering/Videos ), compositing with Compiz under Gnome2/KDE4 and all sort of effects works in all Linux versions - only Ubuntu's new Unity is problematic , sluggish and needs some advanced tweaks within compizconfig-settings-manager like disable vsync and reduce mouse polling time ( beta testing 12.04 shows lot of progress .. to be seen when final is out ) .

Card has 1024MB own RAM, machine has 4096MB - tested kernels : 2.6.39 through 3.2.x x86PAE as well as x64, all fine.